Tomorrow, December 4, my new book Maybe This Love Story Is Really About Me: Alchemize Your Dark Night Into Your Brightest Light comes into the world. It’s the most vulnerable thing I’ve ever made. I want to share the story of how it came to be.

I Wasn’t Planning to Write This Book

I thought I was writing a book about the priestess codes I was channeling in the temples of Egypt. That’s what got me to start writing. I didn’t think I was ready to write my divorce book until I was happily married to someone else, because society told me that’s what being “on the other side of it” meant.

The Mystic in me was asking for more. She told me to write before I had it all figured out, through the tears and discomfort. She had me go through the old photos, notes and memories and find the lessons only hindsight could bring. Suddenly the book wasn’t just about what I was channeling. It was about everything I had lived through that allowed me to channel it.

Writing Through the Fear

There were countless late nights in tears when I asked myself, “Why am I spending years of my life going back into the most painful experiences I’ve ever lived through, and then sharing the most intimate parts of myself with the entire world?”

I caught myself minimizing my pain to avoid making the people in the story uncomfortable. I had to sit with the fear of being judged by future partners, my family and strangers leaving reviews on what are basically the pages of my diary. The deeper I went, the more I knew I couldn’t write about becoming the Mystic while leaving out the experiences that made me one.

A few months ago, I walked into an art installation about hope inside an old hospital and found my book Discover Your Dharma on a hospital bedside table, among the books that had given the artist hope. It reminded me why I write. If this book can transmute one woman’s experience, every tear was worth it.

The Dream That Changed Everything

Right before publishing, I had a dream about an old pet snake in my childhood room that I’d forgotten to feed for months. Part of me wanted to feed her. Part of me wanted to release her into the wild. The snake was asking me, “Which story do you want to feed?”

I’d been telling my heartbreak story for four years, on my podcast and to my friends. It was the initial snake bite that started everything, and I didn’t want that one story to override the many others I’ve intentionally crafted since. When I woke up, I decided to change the whole book to be about alchemizing the dark night of the soul, rather than only heartbreak. I polled my audience, and 75 percent said the dark night. The snake was right.

Did it make logical sense to change a manuscript I’d worked on full-time for a year and a half, after the final edits? Absolutely not. I’ve learned to trust the snake anyway.

What’s Inside the Book

The book follows the Feminine Embodiment Archetypes, the eight women who came alive in me through my dark night. Each one is a real woman in the room with you:

• The Dark Feminine, who strips away everything you’re not (read more)
• The Wild Woman, who dances in the ashes (read more)
• The Sensualist, who reclaims your body as a temple
• The Artist, who creates beauty from pain
• The Lover Girl, who learns to become love itself (read more)
• The Mystic, who discovers the temple was always inside you
• The Queen, who builds a life that can hold her
• The Wise Woman, who sees the whole arc of your story

Woven through them are the symbols of the Snake and the Rose, and the frameworks I’ve developed over a decade of teaching: the Triple E Method (Emote, Embody, Express), Snake Rose Alchemy and the Seven Alchemical Phases. You’ll find goddess myths from Inanna to Mary Magdalene, the astronomy of Venus, practices at the end of every chapter, and my own love stories, told more honestly than I’ve ever told them.

Who This Book Is For

This book is for you if you’re moving through a heartbreak, a divorce, a loss, a health challenge, a job ending or any season that brought you to your knees. It’s for the woman who wants to do more than survive her dark night. She wants to become the goddess version of herself because of it.

Why the Title

We spend so much of our lives thinking our love story is about the other person: whether they’ll choose us, stay, change or see us. Somewhere in the middle of my dark night, I realized the love story was really about me. It’s a self-discovery story. It’s a beauty story. It’s an awakening story. Love is the thread that moves through all of it.

How to Get the Book

Maybe This Love Story Is Really About Me releases December 4. Order through the pre-order page to receive the bonus Rose Meditation, and visit maybethislovestoryisreallyaboutme.com for the free bonuses, the music videos mentioned in the book and more.

Not sure which archetype is leading you right now? Take the free Feminine Embodiment Archetype Quiz before you start reading.

Frequently Asked Questions

When does Maybe This Love Story Is Really About Me come out?

The book releases on December 4, 2026.

What is Maybe This Love Story Is Really About Me about?

It’s Sahara Rose’s story of alchemizing her dark night of the soul after her divorce, told through eight Feminine Embodiment Archetypes, goddess mythology and practical healing practices.

Who should read this book?

Anyone moving through heartbreak, divorce, loss or any life-changing transition who wants to transform the experience into growth, self-love and purpose.

Thank you for walking this path with me. This book is just as much for me as it is for you. I can’t wait for you to meet the women inside it, love.

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